On 2018-03-18, ray carter wrote:

> There should be an entry somewhere at raspberrypi.org. I'll explain:
>
> First get installed version up to date:
>   sudo apt-get update
>   sudo apt-get upgrade
>   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade (if any packages were skipped in upgrade)
>
> Next - point repositories at 'stretch' vice 'jessie'
>   sudo leafpad /etc/apt/sources.list
>     and replace occurrances of 'jessie' with 'stretch'
>   also edit files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d and replace
>     jessie with stretch
>
> Next - go for it:
>   sudo apt-get update
>   sudo apt-get upgrade
>   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>   sudo reboot
>
> That should do it for you. It will take some time since there are a LOT
> of packages and files involved.

I did this recently using these (similar) instructions (although I
didn't use the -y options.).



It worked quite well, unlike the previous time.

However, I don't have the rpi-update command.  Is it obsolete now?


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